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• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The ... academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a ... ’ll be right enough that you’ll never be truly surprised where a hallway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision ... . They are all great posts, but here are a handful of my favorites: Into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been ... actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... year she was (a freshman, like me) and what her major was (she said ... was really happy with her answers, given that I was also a freshman girl

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and ... receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and try ... saturday but you're just a tiny baby who hasn't verified and it doesn't work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... a friend who's an LA native about this feeling and he said that it ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... -being? Please take a few minutes to participate and provide your perspective. To ... presented in a way that individual respondents cannot be identified. If data

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... to a study: They found that 191 couples — 14.7 percent — were ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

    Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before, however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , high character, and a strong match with MIT's global mission to ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive; please trust that we have done our best. Take a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... . A lot of the time, the highlights of my day and the events that I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior ... listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal with MIT. I was stressed, I was upset, and I made a completely rational and reasonable major life decision. I ADOPTED A SEVEN WEEK OLD KITTEN

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... lessons from you, I have cried for you. I had a really horrible physics ... all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... year, they go something like this: We know you lead a busy life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  literally consumes my life. I complain sometimes - okay a lot - but deep inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... take a different perspective on this problem. I'm going to see this situation as a learning experience, a chance to learn more about the cells I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011